What are stem cells and how can they help us live long, healthy lives? Are there natural products that can assist us as we age?
What are stem cells?
At conception, cells begin to divide into what will become a person. Along the way the cells “differentiate” – that is, they become different tissues. Some become the heart, others the brain and so on until the complete human is formed. These are called “embryonic” stem cells. Highly controversial experiments are being conducted with samples of these cells.
Once a person is formed, does the human body stop making stem cells? No, because stem cells are part of our miraculous healing process. We make stem cells every day of our life. These are different from embryonic stem cells because they actually replace other cells. You see, every cell in your body has a life span. When that cell dies it needs to be replaced. Stem cells made in your bone marrow and other places in your body follow a chemical trail back to the place where the cell dies and “differentiate” into the type of cell that died.
Aging can be defined as the process of cell death and cell replacement. Premature aging is when more cells die than you can replace in a single day. Chronic disease and disability often accompany premature aging, as you might imagine. Stem cells replace dead cells. So, the more stem cells you can make in a day, the slower you are aging, the more vital you may be, and the less likely you are to experience the chronic diseases associated with premature aging.
Making stem cells
As I mentioned, we make stem cells every day. Dying cells release enzymes into your bloodstream. Your brain interprets the level of enzymes and sends an appropriate amount of Human growth hormone (HgH). When the HgH reaches the bone marrow or other stem cell “nursery,” it triggers the release of a number of stem cells that roughly correspond to the amount of HgH. The stem cells follow the chemical trail left by the enzymes of the dying cell. They follow the trail back to the space left by the dead cell and nestle into the tissues. Once there, they differentiate into the cell they replace – they literally become the exact type of cell they replaced.
Nutrients are required for making cells (including stem cells). If you are deficient in any critical nutrient at the moment you create stem cells, one of two things will happen:
1. Your bone marrow will refuse the order to meet that quota of stem cells, causing premature aging, or
2. The cells will be made, but without the nutrients critical for the health and longevity of the cell. When a deficient cell matures it becomes the target for inflammation and disease.
Cells need nutrients. Without all of the appropriate nutrients on board at all times, we will not be able to make as many healthy cells as we lose in a day. The disparity between how many cells we lose and how many we can replace is premature aging.
More stem cells
Nutrients serve as the foundation for stem cells. However, specific nutrients also stimulate the production of stem cells. At an anti-aging conference, six stem cell-stimulating nutrients were identified. As one speaker neared the end of his presentation, he talked about “a curious bioflavonoid” found in great abundance in prickly pears from the Nopal cactus. Of course, he was talking about Betalains! It turns out that Betalains along with Vitamin B-12 may help your body increase the production of stem cells.
More healthy stem cells close the gap between the numbers of cells that die and the number of cells we replace every day. That equals slower aging. So, take your nutrients every day: Men’s and Women’s Wellavoh for the nutrient foundation we need, Super Sublingual B-12 and Nopalea to encourage an abundant crop of anti-aging stem cells!
If you’d like to see how Nopalea can help you, call me on 856-264-7802. Ask me about the Nopalea Wellness Challenge and I’ll see if you qualify for a free bottle of Nopalea.
To find out more about Nopalea, go to: www.naturalinflammationhelp.com and watch the 2 minute preview of an infomercial airing on TV that talks about how Nopalea can help you.
I look forward to helping you on your wellness journey.
Es Riggins
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member #13160615
Part I of More About Betalains spoke about Quercetins, one of the 24 Betalains in Nopalea. It’s important to realize the significance of having all 24 known to mankind Betalains in the Nopal Cactus and that this only occurs in the Sonora Desert. If you replanted the Nopal Cactus in the Sahara Desert, it would only product about 12 Betalains. Why? Because the Sonoran Desert has the most extreme environment in the world and the Nopal Cactus needs all 24 to survive. Each Betalain plays an important part but to have all 24 in the Nopal cactus is very important for human health. To read Part I, you can go HERE.
Another Betalain is Beta Xanthine and it’s one of the most important Betalains for detoxification. This particular Betalain participates in detoxification of the liver and kidneys. Two of our bodies major pollutant filters. Beta Xanthine makes the detoxification in our bodies much easier.
Our bodies burn food to create energy. What you eat is like gasoline to a car. We need to consider ourselves a high performance engine; the higher octane the gasoline: the more nutritious food we eat, the better the engine runs. When we process our foods; burn our fuel, the creation of energy is called metabolism: breaking the food down to basic components (catabolism), and using that fuel to promote our health (anabolism). Eating the right foods makes us healthy and energetic.
But, as you may have guessed, there is always a fly in the lemonade. Our bodies must cope with toxins throughout our wellness journey. Toxins attack our bodies from the outside (exotoxins), they are in the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink, toxins are even created by our bodies (endotoxins), it’s a daily battle waged on our bodies by toxic attackers. A leader among the endotoxic attackers id uric acid. High levels of uric acid are poisonous and high levels have been associated with heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, kidney stones and gout.
Uric acid is neutralized in the liver by enzymes, interestingly enough, the same liver enzymes that detoxify uric acid also detoxify many other poisons. So, improving the liver detoxification of uric acid, may well improve your ability to detoxify many other toxins in your body. Every time you drink Nopalea, you get a detoxifying bonus.
Uric acid is excreted by your kidneys, as you may know, your kidneys are extremely delicate and can be easily damaged by dehydration, too much protein or sugar in your diet, toxic metals like mercury, even other toxins like aspirin. Your kidneys can even be damaged by extreme temperatures in our environment, especially heat. We must protect our kidneys.
Beta Xanthine helps protect our liver and kidneys by neutralizing toxins such as uric acid and by increasing liver detoxification enzymes that rid our bodies of exotoxins and endotoxins and may even reduce the shock our kidneys face from excess heat.
Betalains, including Beta Xanthine, are anti-inflammatory and anti-toxin, just what the doctor ordered in a toxic and inflamed world! And, just like their grandfather Quercetin, Betalains are beneficial when it comes to improving our health and energy for daily performance.
A true gift from the harshest climate on the planet, the great Sonoran Desert of the southwest.
If you’d like to see how Nopalea can help you, call me on 856-264-7802. Ask me about the Nopalea Wellness Challenge and I’ll see if you qualify for a free bottle of Nopalea.
To find out more about Nopalea, go to: www.naturalinflammationhelp.com and watch the 2 minute preview of an infomercial airing on TV that talks about how Nopalea can help you.
I look forward to helping you on your wellness journey.
Es Riggins
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member #13160615
WELLAVOH – THE LATEST SONORAN BLOOM WELLNESS PRODUCT FROM THE NOPAL CACTUS IS NOW AVAILABLE.
WELLAVOH (WEL-LAH-VOH), A WORD DERIVED FROM THE NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE OF THE SOUTHWESTERN DESERT REGION TRANSLATES TO MEAN ‘WELLNESS HARVEST’.
WELLAVOH – IS ROOTED IN THE HEALING PLANTS OF THE SONORAN DESERT AND BRINGS NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS AND ANCIENT WISDOM FROM THE NOPAL CACTUS AND OTHER HEALING SONORAN BOTANICALS TO YOU IN IT’S PUREST AND FRESHEST FORM.
Day-to-day diets lack essential nutrients
It’s hard to get the essential daily nutrients your body needs from an average diet. With busy schedules, finding the time to prepare wholesome meals can seem nearly impossible. Many fast food restaurants offer a quick and easy solution to meals, but the food they serve lacks nutritional value and is usually very high in fat. In grocery stores, we often buy processed foods and frozen meals, which contain many additives that strip the foods’ nutritional value. Even the healthiest of diets can lack much-needed nutrients due to vegetables and fruit grown in depleted soils and poor farming conditions.
Your body weakens without the right nourishment
Your body is composed of trillions of cells that all work together to create an entire YOU. Imagine what would happen if, little by little, your cells began to get damaged from a lack of essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Damaged and undernourished cells can lead your body to a weakened immune system that drains you of energy and strength, and makes you more susceptible to illness. Wellavoh feeds your body the nutrients it desires or lacks, so it can fill in any gaps in nutrition.
Daily multi-vitamins are not enough
Many people take a daily multi-vitamin in order to make up for nutrient deficiencies. But this typically falls short. That’s because most daily multi-vitamins are not of the highest quality and standards. For example, they often lack the broad spectrum of nutrient classes your body needs. Or, their ingredients are made from synthetic substances, which are not easily absorbed by your body. Far too many multi-vitamins are formulated as “one type fits all,” with ingredients that aren’t gender specific. This is where Wellavoh comes in.
Take Wellavoh – the daily multi-nutrient complex for complete nutrition
Wellavoh is a solution to the daily nutritional deficiency that most people face. You can take it instead of your daily multi-vitamin because it gives you so much more. That’s why it’s called a “multi-nutrient” instead of a multi-vitamin. Wellavoh is composed of exceptional daily formulas for men and women with 22 different vitamins and minerals.
• The men’s formula supports optimal prostate, cholesterol and blood sugar health.
• The women’s formula supports optimal bone, skin, hormone and breast health.
• AM and PM formulas work two ways: AM for energy and vitality during the day, PM for repair and rejuvenation during the night.
• Four exclusive blends with rare and powerful nutrients derived from herbs, plants, fruits, oils and more.
• Six essential nutrient classes to make a complete multi-nutrient complex.
• Comes in easy-to-swallow, soft-gel capsules for improved absorption and maximum benefit.
• Individually packaged for convenient, on-the-go use.
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If you’d like to find out more about Wellavoh and TriVita’s newest breakthrough wellness drink Nopalea, call me on 856-264-7802 or go HERE.
Es Riggins
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member #13160615
In many companies, their focus is on the creation of the product and not everyone gives thought about the Cycle of Life. That’s not the case with Nopalea. When Michael Ellison, CEO, discovered the Nopal Cactus and it’s rich benefits from the betalains and realized the powerful health benefits, one of his considerations was harvesting the Nopal Cactus.
TriVita found a local company that had been processing Nopal fruit for over 30 years using sustainable wildcrafting techniques learned from native Sonoran ancestors. This company knows just how to harvest the cactus fruit, making sure that it is perfectly ripe. Nopalea takes only what’s needed from the extraordinary Nopal cactus. Most of the fruit is left on the plant to nourish the desert animals and ensure an abundant crop for future harvests. It’s TriVita’s way of giving back, respecting the cycle of life and celebrating the harvest season.
Immediately after harvesting, the Nopal fruit is transported to a state–of–the–art processing plant, where it is juiced to a puree and blended with other natural ingredients to create a delicious and unique wellness drink. Using aseptic, sterile bottling techniques, the fruit’s purity and freshness is preserved – ensuring the potency of its powerful antioxidant Betalains.
It’s no wonder that TriVita has a less than 1% return rate on their products. If you look at TriVita’s 10 Foundational Values that they apply to all their products, you can see they offer premium products with integrity. TriVita ensures, in addition to their own quality control, that their products are full potency and meet all regulatory standards by commissioning third-party testing and research. TriVita also voluntarily adheres to the strict manufacturing guidelines of the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).Safety is a top priority in our packaging and manufacturing; we inspect each product at least 10 times and use two safety seals per package on all ingestible products to guarantee safety, freshness, and product potency.
As you can see, TriVita respects the cycle of life in harvesting the Nopal Cactus for Nopalea but it doesn’t stop there. From the desert to the bottle, you can be assured the highest of quality.
To find out more about Nopalea, go to: www.naturalinflammationhelp.com and watch the 2 minute preview of an infomercial airing on TV that talks about how Nopalea can help you.
Try Nopalea and see what it can do for you. If you have any questions, call me on 856-264-7802.
Es Riggins
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member #13160615
Sonoran Bloom Nopalea and Golf? What do the two have in common?
Most golfers don’t think much about it, but the game — played by about 25 million Americans — can take a surprising toll on the body. And for older golfers especially, who aren’t as strong or flexible as they once were, it can lead to multiple aches and pains as well as injuries. Here’s what you should know about golf and then I’ll let you know how Nopalea can help you to better your game and you!
A Rough Game
According to the National Safety Council, last year golfers suffered around 35,000 injuries that required a trip to the emergency room or doctor. This is due to the simple fact that golf is a physical game that requires lots of twisting and turning, gripping and swinging, and bending and stooping, which places a lot of stress and strain on lower backs, hips, knees, shoulders, hands, wrists and elbows. And while walking a 9 or 18-hole round of golf over hilly terrain is great exercise, it, too, can take a physical toll on the body.
On top of that, many golfers drink caffeinated or alcoholic beverages before and during play, and aren’t aware that prescription medications, especially some heart medications, interfere with the body’s ability to cool itself — all of which increases the risk of heat sickness.
Avoiding Injuries
You can head off some of the physical stresses that come with golf by improving your golf fitness and by warming up before you play. Older golfers especially need to take time stretch their muscles, focusing on their legs, shoulders and back (Go to: http://mayoclinic.com/health/golf-stretches/SM00089 for a slide show of golf stretches).
And for instruction on how to improve your golf fitness and reduce injury there’s a variety of resources you can turn to such as the Titleist Performance Institute (www.mytpi.com), where you’ll find tips on golf exercises, stretching and injury prevention.
Golf Fitness Magazine Web site (www.golffitness-magazine.com) is another good resource that offers a golf fitness survey, blog, online exercise videos and a wide variety of helpful fitness articles. There are also dozens of books that provide tips on golf fitness such as “Dr. Divot’s Guide to Golf Injuries” and “Golf Rx” which you can find online at Amazon.com.
Already Injured
A great product to help you recover quickly from those painful inflamed muscles and joints is Sonoran Bloom Nopalea. A few ounces of this desert magic is all you need to help on your road to a quick recovery. Nopalea blends antioxidant-rich Nopal cactus superfruit with naturally sweet Agave nectar to bring you a deliciously unique concentrated wellness drink. Harnessing the power of betalains, a rare and powerful class of antioxidants that flourishes in the Nopal fruit, Nopalea delivers scientifically proven health benefits.
Nopalea has been proven to reduce inflammation and increase energy. Its betalains and other anti-inflammatory ingredients work directly on the fluid surrounding your cells. There, they draw off the toxins and excess water to reduce inflammation and rebalance the cellular environment.
To find out more about Nopalea, go to: www.naturalinflammationhelp.com and watch the 2 minute preview of an infomercial airing on TV that talks about how Nopalea can help you.
Try Nopalea and see what it can do for you. If you have any questions, call me on 856-264-7802.
Es Riggins
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member #13160615
Have you heard the latest? TriVita’s Newest Infomercial is on their New Product Line Sonoran Bloom featuring the first product, Nopalea. Watch the movie below to see a short preview (2 minutes) and then read below to find out why this is so fantastic and how you can be in a ground floor opportunity with a proven business model.
Most people haven’t heard of TriVita and for TriVita that wasn’t a problem because for 10 years they have been steadily building a strong and loyal customer base and loyal affiliate members. With TriVita, you can’t make $1,000,000 by next month, but if you could I would really doubt the legitimacy of that business. TriVita is a real business that continues to put initiatives in place to help their affiliate members succeed and they offer premium nutritional products that really produce results so you feel good about helping people on their wellness journey.
I am sure you have read my other posts about the launch of Nopalea, one of TriVita’s newer products that has been making such a difference in people’s lives because one of the primary benefits is it reduces inflammation which has been helping relieve pain in anyone who has inflammation. Just search on inflammation in Google and you would be surprised at the number of conditions that are caused by inflammation. Better yet, call me and I’ll send you a report on what Time Magazine has called, the Secret Killer.
But what’s really exciting right now is TriVita has created an infomercial on both the new product and the addition to the business model, called Share and Earn, that is wrapped around their new product line called Sonoran Bloom. With this model, you can join TriVita for $35.00. It’s like a business in a box concept.
If that’s not exciting enough to have TriVita air these infomercials as well as radio ads, direct mail and internet marketing to get the word out about the new product that has been taking the US and Canada by storm (within a few months, without TriVita’s customers knowing about it, Nopalea became Canada’s #1 product and US’ #3 product of their 50 other nutritional products), but . . .
We will be able to acquire both Nopalea customers AND affiliate members (people who have joined the business) from TriVita.
Can you imagine how fast your business will grow with building it by sharing the product and the other ways you can build TriVita AND now also acquire customers and Affilate Members from the infomercials that TriVita generates?
Do you know how powerful that it is and how you can truly build a team that can succeed. Do you see how TriVita has removed all reasons for failure in a business? Now is the very best time to be part of TriVita.
Try Nopalea and see how it can help you and if you’d like to find out how you can also earn $500 to $2,000 by sharing Nopalea, call me on 856-264-7802 or go HERE to find out more.
Great products create great wealth and that’s what we have with TriVita.
Es Riggins
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member #13160615
Have you ever walked down the cleaning aisle at the supermarket? What was your experience? I hate it! In fact, I completely avoid that aisle. If I need something, I hold my breath, quickly get what I need and beat a hasty retreat from that toxic soup.
The soaps, bleaches, softeners and fragrances in the cleaning aisle are all in sealed containers. Yet, they still give off an overwhelming, nauseating stench that may make a person sick for hours. What happens when we bring those containers home? They continue to give off toxins. Only now, the containers are open and the process happens 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Our toxic environment
In North America we are inundated with toxins every moment of every day. Pollution in our air, water and food challenges our ability to detoxify and adapt. Worse still, the place we think of as a haven from stress – our home – is likely the most toxic environment we face in our daily routines. Toxins released from household chemicals, fabric, carpet, fragrances and pesticides seep into our body in tiny amounts even as we sleep.
Toxic waste, like barnacles on the hull of a ship, drags us down. It slows the efficiency of our mitochondria (the energy-producing engines inside our cells). Noxious chemicals create fatigue, headaches, digestive disturbances and moodiness. Eventually, toxins become the focus for inflammation.
Inflammation
Your body uses acute inflammation to try to neutralize toxicity. Think of your reaction to a bee sting: redness, swelling, heat and pain. This is not caused by the toxins in the bee venom. It is the reaction of your body as it tries to eliminate the toxicity:
• Redness is the increase in blood supply to bring in immune system antibodies and remove the neutralized venom.
• Swelling is the lymphatic fluid that dilutes the concentrated poison while providing proteins for repair of the tissue damaged by the toxins.
• Heat comes from immune system activity as it battles the invading contaminant.
• Pain causes us to guard that area from further damage.
Chronic inflammation occurs when the toxins are not completely removed from an area. A good example of this may be found in simple lawn chemicals, like fertilizers and pesticides. Certain fertilizers are potassium-based. Potassium is important for human health. When we are exposed to these fertilizers, our cells may accept the potassium along with the toxic “attachments.” Your immune system will constantly attack these contaminated cells until it destroys them. Clusters of diseases like Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis have been linked to these fertilizers.
Home sweet home – isolate and insulate
Neutralizing toxins in the body begins with isolating ourselves from chemical exposure. We must be diligent if we are to protect our family from toxic overload. Chemicals should be stored out of the living area in a place that is well-ventilated. This is especially true if there are children in the home, as developing brains are up to 10 times more likely to suffer damage from toxins than an adult nervous system.
Insulating ourselves against toxic exposure is equally important. Two nutrient classes shine when it comes to protection from pollution:
• Essential fatty acids – Many of the toxins we face are fat-soluble. We need “clean” fats in abundance to displace toxic fats in our brain, liver and other regions of our body.
• Antioxidants – Antioxidants neutralize toxins and Betalain antioxidants found in Nopal figs have two added benefits over standard antioxidants:
o Betalains drain away the toxin from an affected area
o Betalains shore up the cell membrane to help promote healing.
Betalains turn out to be our best tool in combating the causes of inflammation: toxins, stress, injury and nutrient deficiency. Use this excellent tool liberally to help you resist the increasing onslaught of toxins both inside and outside of our home sweet home!
Take Control of Your Health
Breathe deeply
Remove toxins from your living area
Use HEPA filters for cleaner air
Drink pure water
Granular carbon filters remove many toxins
Ultraviolet light kills many pathogens
Mineralized, alkaline water displaces poisons
Eat nutritiously
Select organic foods
Pre-soak fruits and vegetables
Focus on high-antioxidant fruits and vegetables
Supplement with Nopalea
Betalains help your body neutralize toxins
Betalains help your body drain away toxic waste
Betalains help your body repair tissue damaged by toxins
Supplement with OmegaPrime; at least two capsules per day helps you resist fat-soluble toxins
If you’re interested in finding more about Nopalea and high quality products that can help you, go HERE or call me on 856-264-7802.
Es Riggins
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member #13160615
I have had many people asking me questions about Nopalea. If you’ve read the information I have on this blog, you’ll see the health benefits but I want to address some of the key questions that continue to come up that I haven’t answered in this blog.
What does the name Nopalea mean?
The name is derived from the word “Nopal.” This is a type of cactus found in the Sonoran Desert and known for its antioxidant-rich healing properties. The Nopal cactus fruit is the key ingredient in Nopalea.
What type of fruit is the Nopalea juice made from?
The Nopal cactus fruit is key ingredient in Nopalea. The fruit is carefully harvested from the Sonoran Desert, using sustainable wildcrafting techniques that the native Sonorans have used for thousands of years.
What makes Nopalea so unique?
Nopalea contains a rare and potent class of antioxidants called betalains. Of all the known sources for betalains, the Nopal cactus fruit supplies some of the highest amounts found in all of nature.
How is Nopalea different from other Superfruit concentrates products?
While many superfruit liquid wellness concentrates are available today such as Noni, Mangosteen, and Acai, Nopalea is made from the purest and freshest Opuntia Ficus Indica (Nopal) cactus that produces a antioxidant rich Superfruit. This powerful Superfruit is unique in that it contains a rare class of Antioxidant called Betalain. The Betalain antioxidant is scientifically studied and proven to help the body detoxify itself from harmful environmental toxins which help reduce and protect against inflammation. Inflammation is now considered the number one precursor to dangerous and life threatening disease.
With so many Superfruit products available why should I use an Opuntia Ficus Indica (Nopal) product over an Acai, Noni or Mangosteen product?
There are many superfruits available and they all contain antioxidants to help slow the aging process and fight free radicals. However, none of them have the clinical research that Opuntia Ficus Indica does on helping the body detoxify and reduce inflammation. Because science has proven inflammation is a serious cause for disease Opuntia Ficus Indica could be a more prudent selection.
What are betalains?
Betalains are a rare and potent class of antioxidants found in extremely high, concentrated levels in the Nopal cactus fruit. When you drink Nopalea, you take these betalains directly into your system, where they work on the cellular level to restore your vitality.
Scientific research shows that the betalains found in the Nopal cactus fruit can help to detoxify your body, eliminating the poisons we encounter every day. Betalains also help the body reduce inflammation, protecting you from a wide variety of disorders.
How else can I get Betalain antioxidants in my diet?
There are 24 types of Betalains known to science each one having a different function. Beets contain up to 6 of the 24 Betalains; Rainbow Swiss chard contains 12 Betalains. Nopal fruit can contain up to all 24 Betalain types, especially the Opuntia Ficus Indica Nopal fruit from the Sonora Desert. There are many species of Nopal that grow around the world. Opuntia Ficus Indica thrives in the extreme environment of the Sonora Desert and when wild-harvested at the peak of ripeness can contain all 24 Betalain types.
How is the Betalain antioxidant different from other Superfruit antioxidants?
Betalains are a protein-bound antioxidant that does more than help slow aging. Betalain antioxidants can help the body reduce inflammation, detoxify the cell and restore the balance between the inside and outside of the cell for optimal cellular function. While many antioxidants have been claimed to have different health benefits, the Betalain antioxidant is specifically studied to help the body reduce inflammation on a measurable and therapeutic level. Multiple studies show that Betalain antioxidants can help the human cell detoxify and remove unwanted and dangerous toxins which help reduce inflammation.
But the best way to find out more about Nopalea is to try it. Not only is it good for you but it tastes good.
Try Nopalea and see how it can help you and if you’d like to find out how you can also earn $500 to $2,000 by sharing Nopalea, call me on 856-264-7802 or go HERE to find out more.
Great products create great wealth and that’s what we have with TriVita.
Es Riggins
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member #13160615
TriVita has had 2 years of clinical studies proving the health benefits of Nopalea. There have been over 100 scientific studies and the prickly pear cactus which this breakthrough wellness drink is based upon has had over 278 studies.
On the Sonoran Bloom Nopalea site, some of the studies are listed but if you’re like me, you have a hard time deciphering those studies.
Yes, Nopalea can benefit you by reducing inflammation and relieving all types of pain as well as normalize blood pressure and improve breathing difficulties caused by allergies or asthma as well as supporting your cardiovascular health and more but if you try and take a look at the science behind this, it may be confusing and so I am going to offer a looking glass view at one of the studies to help you.
On the sonoran bloom site, one of the references under anti-inflammatory is:
“Antioxidant betalains from cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) inhibit endothelial ICAM-1 expression.” (Gentile C, Tesoriere L, Allegra M, Livrea MA, D’Alessio P. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2004 Dec;1028:481-6.)
And if you research it, a summary says:
It has been suggested that some pigments would have antioxidant properties and that their presence in dietary constituents would contribute to reduce the risk of oxidative stress-correlated diseases. Among others, inflammatory response depends on redox status and may implicate oxidative stress. Vascular endothelial cells are a direct target of oxidative stress in inflammation. We have tested the impact of the free radical scavenger and antioxidant properties of betalains from the prickle pear in an in vitro model of endothelial cells. Here we show the capacity of betalains to protect endothelium from cytokine-induced redox state alteration, through ICAM-1 inhibition.
English please.
Okay, here’s a brief explanation of the above study to help you.
First, what is endothelial cells? Endothelial cells relate to the endothelium, the layer of flat cells lining the closed spaces of the body such as the inside of blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, the heart, and body cavities. By contrast, the outside layer of cells that covers all the free, open surfaces of the body including the skin and mucous membranes that communicate with the outside of the body is called the epithelium.
Okay great. Now you understand what the endothelial cells are but what is oxidative stress.
Your body constantly reacts with oxygen as you breathe and your cells produce energy. As a consequence of this activity, highly reactive molecules are produced known as free radicals. Free radicals interact with other molecules within cells. This can cause oxidative damage to proteins, membranes and genes. Oxidative damage has been implicated in the cause of many diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s and has an impact on the body’s aging process. External factors such as pollution, sunlight and smoking also trigger the production of free radicals.
And what is ICAM-1?
Although ICAM-1 is expressed constitutively at low levels on endothelial cells and on some lymphocytes and monocytes, its expression can be significantly increased in the presence of cytokines (TNFalpha, IL-1, IFNgamma) and reactive oxygen species. Depending upon cell type, ICAM-1 participates in trafficking of inflammatory cells, in cell:cell interactions during antigen presentation, in microbial pathogenesis, and in signal transduction through outside-in signaling events. Again, depending upon cell type examined, ICAM-1 engagement has been documented to activate specific kinases through phosphorylation, resulting in transcription factor activation and increased cytokine production, increased cell membrane protein expression, reactive oxygen species production, and cell proliferation.
And what is cytokine?
Cytokines are a category of signaling molecules that are used extensively in cellular communication. Cytokines are critical to the development and functioning of both the innate and adaptive immune response, although not limited to just the immune system. External signals such as cytokines may normally initiate a proliferative response through binding to cell surface receptors, but the ultimate outcome of the transduced signal can be substantially modulated, or even abrogated, by prevalent intracellular conditions.
So basically inhibiting ICAM-1 protects the endothelium from these cytokine-induced redox state alerations.
All clear now? Okay, maybe it’s a little difficult to understand the research behind this but all you have to do is try Nopalea and see if it works for you. There is a 60 day money back guarantee and even if you finish the bottle, you can get your money back.
Now that’s simple. Nopalea – change your health today.
Try Nopalea and see how it can help you and if you’d like to find out how you can also earn $500 to $2,000 by sharing Nopalea, call me on 856-264-7802 or go HERE to find out more.
Great products create great wealth and that’s what we have with TriVita.
Es Riggins
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An inflammatory factor already linked to several diseases, including pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and arthritis, may also be responsible for the insulin resistance that comes with obesity, according to a new study published in the April 2009 issue of Cell Metabolism.
Researchers have found that the inflammatory chemokine known as CXCL5 rises and falls with obesity and subsequent weight loss in humans. (Chemokines are structurally related signaling proteins that are secreted by cells.) They found further evidence tying the inflammatory factor, which is produced and secreted at high levels by fat tissue, to insulin resistance in mice. What’s more, they show that treatments designed to block its action improves the animals’ sensitivity to insulin.
“Clearly, this finding could be a big development for understanding the side effects of obesity,” said Lluis Fajas of INSERM in France. “It offers a new target for therapy and new hope for subjects to improve their pathology.”
Fat tissue known as white adipose tissue (WAT) is primarily involved in energy storage in the form of triglycerides and energy release in the form of free fatty acids, Fajas’ team explained. However, WAT is more than a fat storage organ; it also secretes numerous other factors with roles in both health and disease.
In the new study, the researchers show that CXCL5 is one of those factors. The chemokine is expressed at high levels in WAT, particularly in immune cells known as macrophages. Moreover, they report that CXCL5 is dramatically increased in the blood of people who are obese compared to those who are lean.
Those CXCL5 levels drop when obese people lose weight and are also lower in obese individuals that continue to respond to insulin than in those who are insulin resistant.
They further found that treatment with recombinant CXCL5 blocks insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in the muscles of mice. What’s more, treatment of obese, insulin-resistant mice with either anti-CXCL5 neutralizing antibodies or drugs that block the receptor it triggers (known as CXCR2) reverses those symptoms. Mice lacking the CXCL5 receptor are also protected against obesity-induced insulin resistance.
Overall, the findings show that CXCL5 produced by fat tissue “represents a link between obesity, inflammation, and insulin resistance.”
Interestingly, they added, the CXCR2 receptor is active outside of muscle, in cells that line blood vessel walls and in the lung and intestine, for example. Therefore, increased CXCL5 circulating levels as observed in obesity could lead to other problems, including atherosclerosis and other inflammatory diseases.
“Studies aiming to elucidate the role of WAT-secreted CXCL5 in all these obesity-related pathologies are likely to be forthcoming in the near future,” they wrote. “Inhibiting CXCL5 secretion or function in obese individuals may not only ameliorate their insulin sensitivity, but could also decrease the risk of developing other major obesity-related pathologies.”
Again inflammation is shown to be a contributing factor, if not a triggering factor in obesity related diseases.
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